With all the features that should be available soon, APEv2 tagging must be peanuts

Here is how version 4.504b compares with 4.50a here, using the "Platina" pop compilation album. Going through all test-albums will take several days, but this album proved to give quite average results with all the different lossless compressors. Apart from the compression mode, all switches were left in default.

- Filesizes with the existing modes (fast, normal, high, extra, best and ultra) remained practically unchanged (within a few bytes).- Decompression speed did not change.- Compression was a little faster, as promised in the changelog (fast & normal 12%, high 9%, extra 6%).- The new mode extranew compressed to 63.24%, 0.5% better than ultra (63.75%), while still being a bit faster.- The new mode bestnew compressed to 62.99%, 0.25% better than extranew. But it's almost twice as slow. Like the existing insane mode, much too slow for 'realtime' on my PC.

So the ultra and insane modes appear obsolete, if extranew and bestnew consistently come out better like this.In comparison, La 0.4 high gets to 62,69%, and is about twice as fast as extranew...

Yes, I read and updated about the fb2k plugin already after reading your other post!

The average improvement of extranew over ultra, with all 7 albums, was 0.64%. That's quite much, any reason you kept the ultra and insane modes nevertheless, or will they be removed if all stays well while in beta?

> Are you writing the dBpowerAMP Plug in?, if so can I be of assistance. Yes, I studied the dbpoweramp-input-decoder.zip and I think it's very clean (and clear) :-).It should be ready later today. Thanks for the offer. I'll let you know if I need any assistance...